Exploring an Integrated Approach to the Resolution of International Boundary and Territorial Disputes
Conference Panels and Speakers
| 18 APRIL 2013 | |
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| Welcome | |
| Iain Macleod | Legal Adviser to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office |
| Opening address | |
| Robert Volterra | Partner, Volterra Fietta |
| Panel 1: Recent developments in land boundary and territorial sovereignty disputes | |
| Panel 1 summary and abstracts click here | |
| Judge Stephen M. Schwebel (chair) | Independent arbitrator; former Judge of the International Court of Justice |
| Robert Volterra | Partner, Volterra Fietta |
| Richard Schofield | Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, King’s College London |
| Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont | Uguen Vidalenc & Associés, Paris; consultant in public international law |
| Loretta Malintoppi | Of Counsel, Eversheds, Paris |
| Hon. Davis R. Robinson | Senior counsel, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C. |
| Panel 2: People and boundaries | |
| Panel 2 summary and abstracts click here | |
| Dr James Clad MNZM (chair) | Senior Adviser, Center for Naval Analysis (CNA), Washington, D.C. |
| Dr Robert Bradnock | Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London |
| Professor David Newman | Professor of Political Geography, Department of Politics and Government, and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel |
| Dr Carl Grundy-Warr | Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore |
| Panel 3: Recent developments in maritime boundary delimitation | |
| Panel 3 summary and abstracts click here | |
| Judge Dolliver Nelson (chair) | Member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea |
| Dr Alex Oude Elferink | Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht University |
| Professor Taisaku Ikeshima | Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge; and Professor at Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies, Japan |
| Professor Nico Schrijver | Academic Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University |
| Samuel Wordsworth QC | Essex Court Chambers |
| Chris Whomersley | UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office |
| 19 APRIL 2013 | |
| Panel 4: Technical challenges in maritime delimitation | |
| Panel 4 summary and abstracts click here | |
| Dr Robin Cleverly (chair) | Head, Law of the Sea Group, UK Hydrographic Office |
| Dr Lindsay Parson | Managing Director, Maritime Zone Solutions Ltd |
| John Brown | Law of the Sea Consultant, UK Hydrographic Office |
| Professor Clive Schofield | Director of Research, Australian Centre for Ocean Resource and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia |
| Dr Leendert Dorst | Head, Geodesy & Tides Department, Hydrographic Service of the Royal Netherlands Navy |
| Panel 5: Regional case study on the South China Sea | |
| Panel 5 summary and abstracts click here | |
| Sir Daniel Bethlehem KCMG QC (chair) | 20 Essex Street Chambers, former Legal Adviser to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office |
| Nguyen Thi Minh Nguyet | Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Law and Treaties, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam |
| Henry Bensurto, Jr. | Senior Special Assistant, Office of the Undersecretary for Policy, Department of Foreign Affairs, the Philippines |
| Dr Robin Cleverly | Head, Law of the Sea Group, UK Hydrographic Office |
| Professor Robert Beckman | Director, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore |
| Professor Keyuan Zou | Harris Professor of International Law, Lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire, UK |
| Panel 6: Future challenges in territorial and delimitation disputes | |
| Panel 6 summary and abstracts click here | |
| Professor Michael Reisman (chair) | Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law, Yale Law School |
| Professor Maurice Mendelson QC | Blackstone Chambers; Professor Emeritus of International Law, University of London |
| Stephen Fietta | Partner, Volterra Fietta |
| Professor Julian Minghi | University of South Carolina, Columbia, U.S.A. |
